Bernie Lincicome says there is something spooky about MLB's new pitch clock, digital stewards blinking away, demanding to be obeyed, ruling the natural pace of play, all in service of emptying the ballpark faster. Shooing your customers away does not seem to be a good business plan.
I've given it more than a week, this new rush-ball thing, wondering what's the hurry and what to do with the extra half-hour saved. I understand baseball's reasoning is that faster games allow fans to get home in time for dinner when we all know that's what microwave ovens and GrubHub are for.
And still Pete Rose is not in the Hall of Fame. That has nothing to do with this column but I like to throw in a reminder of baseball's myopia whenever I write about the sport. We must be aware, like the changes or not, this game is not that game. It is a hurried hybrid of baseball, rather like pickleball players cluttering perfectly good tennis courts, or bitcoin pretending to be money.
There is something spooky about digital stewards blinking away, demanding to be obeyed, ruling the natural pace of play, all in service of emptying the ballpark faster. Shooing your customers away does not seem to be a good business plan.
Considering his options, Stroman was interrupted by the umpire who pointed out that the new digital timer had determined that there is no thinking in the new baseball.
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